The 'Catholic house decoration' game

Stercus Accidit · 09-07-2012 11:32AM

I get 0 points, boring but satisfying, if this were golf I'd win!

Squ · 09-07-2012 11:38AM

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

I get 0 points, boring but satisfying, if this were golf I'd win!

Coming in on par rarely gets the win

To get a good golf score, you'd have to get minus points.. was there much Satanic activity in your house while you were growing up?

Dades · 09-07-2012 11:42AM

You only use 'points' in golf when playing stableford. The more the better.

Sheesh. :pac:

Tonyandthewhale · 09-07-2012 12:25PM

No points here, unless I get some for a set of rosary beads the dog found on the side of the road when I was bringing her for a walk.

yeppydeppy · 09-07-2012 12:50PM

I've got about 355 points so far - I can't really remember how many stations we had growing up but there were at leaset 3 plus we had all the other statues, pictures, sacred heart bulbs, rosary beads and scapulars (remember them?)!
We also had a bunch of religious relatives - one who is still an active member of the legion of Mary - she should be running it at this stage but they only want her for her money.

Banbh · 09-07-2012 12:53PM

Many, many years ago. We, as newly-weds, moved into a small house and there was a flashing red light in front of the statue of Jesus at the top of a narrow stairs. Removed all fuses. Still flashing. Took insulated pliers and cut the wire. Blinding flash. Fell down stairs.
Couldn't tell the Ma or Ma-in-law for fear of exorcism.

FinnLizzy · 09-07-2012 03:13PM

My sister's old piano teacher would win this game. Her house, to start off with, had a Mary shrine built in the garden.

But when you got into the house, you couldn't find any pictures of her, or her family/friends. ALL Jesus, and other tat. Every table top was a shrine. She even gave out to another student for wearing a necklace with a dragon on it. Her video collection consisted of stuff like Ben Hur, Fatima, etc.

My sister (who is a Boardsie, hello) was also getting a life home from her after a lesson (she lived about 20 mins away). After they managed to make it past half way, she remembered that she forgot to bless the house.

But her piano playing was top notch,

seamus · 10-07-2012 09:43AM

I was quite impressed thinking that we were getting a zero, but then I remembered that there was once a stations held in my house, so a disappointing 100 points.

I'm not counting the granny flat we had for a few years, because strictly speaking I didn't live there. But my granny had a lot of Jesus crap in there and in her bedroom. 2-foot high statue of Mary looking over you at the end of the bed, anyone? She also had a case of those plastic Marys filled with holy water. A case.

Interestingly my mother in law who would follow quite the holy Jane life but is clearly conflicted because she's a very open and tolerant individual, has very little Jesus memorabilia draped around the house. There's a child of prague on a windowsill somewhere and no doubt an emergency bottle of holy water in a press somewhere, but that's about it.

I don't think there was ever a time when the stuff mentioned in the OP wasn't tacky and horrific, so their existence is more an indicator of the homeowner's lack of taste and style rather than a declaration of holiness.

Many, many years ago. We, as newly-weds, moved into a small house and there was a flashing red light in front of the statue of Jesus at the top of a narrow stairs. Removed all fuses. Still flashing.

Back in the day, people who built their own houses would often wire in a circuit specifically for this light. It would usually not have a switch (i.e. it was always on) and sometimes wouldn't even have a fuse, just wired directly into the main board.
I remember staying in a house out in West Cork a couple of years back after a family wedding and it had one of these. When you turned off all of the other lights, the house looked like a brothel.

Skrynesaver · 10-07-2012 10:06AM

230 on the original post, so what do I get when I add the questionably black saint (Martin de Porres AFAIR), Child of Prague (head glued back on), 2 cousins priests "on the missions", calendar from missionary charity on wall, dried out Leylandii ("Palm Sunday" fodder), Marriage certificate with John XXIII smiling forth, uncountable legions of Mass cards - about 20 on public display, Father Matthew statue - and a raving alcoholic sitting under it drinking whiskey

Squ · 10-07-2012 11:07AM

The mother has a wireless door bell she puts up at christmas which plays christmas carols when someone knocks.

Does that count seeing Christmas has little or nothing to do with catholicisim?

CL7 · 10-07-2012 11:25AM

What do I get for

Bible found under my mattress?

Holy water, rosary beads, medals, crosses left in my bedside drawer and placed strategically around my bedroom different times?

2 small Holy guys hiding (statues) under my bed?

There's more stuff as well but that's all I can think of for now. Biggest mistake I ever made was telling them I was an atheist. Don't worry it's all in the past and it hasn't affected me at all. No I'm serious, it hasn't, really.

Beruthiel · 10-07-2012 11:37AM

150, though, perhaps it's more?

My aunt used to work as the housekeeper in a rectory over in the USA.
She would come home to visit every second summer or so and a certain priest would come with her (I always had my suspicions regarding that particular relationship, but apparently they were just good friends....)
Anyway, he said mass in our house many times.
Do I get 100 x at least 10 masses?

kylith · 10-07-2012 12:43PM

CL7 wrote: »

What do I get for

Bible found under my mattress?

Holy water, rosary beads, medals, crosses left in my bedside drawer and placed strategically around my bedroom different times?

2 small Holy guys hiding (statues) under my bed?

There's more stuff as well but that's all I can think of for now. Biggest mistake I ever made was telling them I was an atheist. Don't worry it's all in the past and it hasn't affected me at all. No I'm serious, it hasn't, really.

Jebus, were they hoping to convert you by osmosis?

I forgot about the bibles. I think we had the standard one, a fancy illustrated one with the gold around the pages, 4 Gideon bibles, and a Good News that was required by my secondary school, but never used in any class, ever.

Pushtrak · 10-07-2012 12:48PM

CL7 wrote: »

What do I get for

Bible found under my mattress?

Holy water, rosary beads, medals, crosses left in my bedside drawer and placed strategically around my bedroom different times?

2 small Holy guys hiding (statues) under my bed?

There's more stuff as well but that's all I can think of for now. Biggest mistake I ever made was telling them I was an atheist. Don't worry it's all in the past and it hasn't affected me at all. No I'm serious, it hasn't, really.

Never had the religious paraphernalia put under my bed, but the other stuff echoes true for me. Would just elicit a facepalm or a roll of the eyes before I'd move the stuff elsewhere. Also, the constant being told "pray to St. ___________ so ______________".

Sarky · 10-07-2012 12:53PM

If it happens again, paint Joker faces on the statues or and wear ALL the rosary beads as jewellery pretending they've turned you gay.

Squ · 10-07-2012 01:02PM

Pushtrak wrote: »

Also, the constant being told "pray to St. ___________ so ______________".

Although not religious, we do tip our hat to St. Lawrence before a BBQ.

Shame the church has spent hundreds of years undoing all the good work done by brave folk like these.

CL7 · 10-07-2012 02:59PM

Pushtrak wrote: »

Never had the religious paraphernalia put under my bed, but the other stuff echoes true for me. Would just elicit a facepalm or a roll of the eyes before I'd move the stuff elsewhere. Also, the constant being told "pray to St. ___________ so ______________".

Ahh... a fellow survivor. :pac:

gozunda · 10-07-2012 09:14PM

Skrynesaver wrote: »

.....dried out Leylandii ("Palm Sunday" fodder)....;)

I just love these...way back in Jeruselem when JC was heading into town on a Donkey, the crowd supposedly placed "palm" branches on the road as a mark of a respect - hence "palm" Sunday (ahem this is as far as I remember...)

So what happens in Ireland - well we dont have too many exotic palm trees (well except outside B&Bs from the 1960's - what was that about? ) so they went for the next likley "exotic" type tree ie Conifers - I mean come on these species are not even vaguely similar. So anyway conifers got chopped up and brought home as the tree jc walked on on Palm Sunday!

Funny thing then was that people then thought Conifers were infact plam trees! I rememeber years ago trying to persuade someone that they did not actually want a hedge of "palm" trees out the front of their house

jill_valentine · 10-07-2012 09:40PM

This broken headed Child of Prague thing is intriguing.

gozunda · 10-07-2012 09:47PM

jill_valentine wrote: »

This broken headed Child of Prague thing is intriguing.

Ref Broken Statues

Jimoslimos · 10-07-2012 10:08PM

Just remembered another one;

Baptismal Candle. Anyone else have one of these?

FinnLizzy · 13-07-2012 02:09PM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Just remembered another one;

Baptismal Candle. Anyone else have one of these?

I have no idea where my one is, and I don't particularly apart from my love of playing with hot wax.

kylith · 13-07-2012 02:25PM

Strangely our Child of Prague isn't broken. It has no paint left though, apparently my mother used to suck on it as a child (!).

My mother also told me that her mother passed it down to her as a fertility idol. She didn't call it that, though; she said it was to 'ensure the marriage was blessed'. It seems to have worked for her anyway, she had six kids!

robindch · 13-07-2012 03:03PM

kylith wrote: »

Strangely our Child of Prague isn't broken.

My one, a hand-me-down from my dad, certainly is. Jesus took a football to the chin when I was around ten, went flying across the room and shattered against the wardrobe. We glued the mess of bits back together again as best we could, but he was never the same afterwards and sported a a hole around the back, just about at bum level, that you could stick your finger into and wiggle around if you were careful.

I'm sure there was a moral there somewhere, but I'm buggered if I could think what it might be.

iguana · 13-07-2012 03:49PM

robindch wrote: »

I'm sure there was a moral there somewhere, but I'm buggered if I could think what it might be.

If Jesus was having fingers inserted into his bum hole I'm not sure you're the one in this story who's buggered.

Gets coat.:(

Malari · 13-07-2012 04:18PM

Zero points.

My momma puts up a minimalist arty crib at xmas though...does that count for anything?

Oh my sister has a statue of Jebus in her house. Her boyfriend (brought up areligious) bought it because he thought it was hilarious that people would seriously have these things in their homes.

Mintoz · 13-07-2012 08:22PM

pontia wrote: »

for people who seem to believe in nothing you spend a lot of time giving out/abusing taking the piss out of catholics,strange you dont do same to muslims,you afraid there might be a backlash ?

I know, tell me about it. You think this 'New athiesm' would be around but for 9/11?

Anyway, most of this is down to a severely warped and misinformed conception of God, a God that nobody would worship, so in a sense they are rational from that perspective. Then there's the problem of interpreting scripture, viewing it not from what the author intended to convey, but from a scientific perspective, which renders it impossible to understand (The earth does not have four corners, for example). The equivalent of a police detective finding a Stephen King novel, and proceeding to open a murder investigation. It paralyzes their ability to see how others see. If someone said that God was a bearded man in a sky, I wouldn't belive it either!

This 'New athiesm' will die out like the 'Old Athiesm' did, it might even rise it's ugly head again in the future, but they'll call it something like 'Modern athiesm' or something to that effect.

krankykitty · 13-07-2012 09:58PM

Confirmed atheist here, but I've a purple glitter Jebus moneybox and a Buddy Christ!

Plenty of (other) tat knocking around in the 80s, regular visits to Knock to the Aladdins cave like shops of pure tack!

fisgon · 13-07-2012 11:31PM

Mintoz wrote: »

This 'New athiesm' will die out like the 'Old Athiesm' did, it might even rise it's ugly head again in the future, but they'll call it something like 'Modern athiesm' or something to that effect.

Wow, you know, I think you're right! All those years of unbelief and really I was just fooling myself. After all, it's just a passing fad, this atheism business, right?
:rolleyes:

(BTW, what the **** has your post got to do with tacky Catholic tat in people's houses...ie the topic of the thread?)

Daftendirekt · 17-07-2012 12:54AM

Mintoz wrote: »

I know, tell me about it. You think this 'New athiesm' would be around but for 9/11?

Anyway, most of this is down to a severely warped and misinformed conception of God, a God that nobody would worship, so in a sense they are rational from that perspective. Then there's the problem of interpreting scripture, viewing it not from what the author intended to convey, but from a scientific perspective, which renders it impossible to understand (The earth does not have four corners, for example). The equivalent of a police detective finding a Stephen King novel, and proceeding to open a murder investigation. It paralyzes their ability to see how others see. If someone said that God was a bearded man in a sky, I wouldn't belive it either!

This 'New athiesm' will die out like the 'Old Athiesm' did, it might even rise it's ugly head again in the future, but they'll call it something like 'Modern athiesm' or something to that effect.

I love the way you jump into the thread and respond to a bunch of points that nobody made.

Minimum 50 points here, though I also had a Child of Prague (head intact), numerous medallions and my picture of the Pope had a custom blessing on it (has to be worth something).

The 'Catholic house decoration' game

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